I was one of the guilty individuals who viewed the tea party movement as a group solely supported by republicans, and as a “support network for Palin.” This article however attributes Christine O Donnell’s primary election victory to her endorsements from Sarah Palin and the Tea Party. In actuality the Tea Party is comprised of multitude of national organization, and “discussion range from the philosophical, pondering the role of government and the duties to citizens, to the practical, how to canvass and organize. Though it is remains a very conservative movement, my opinion that it is a crowd of crazy extremists has somewhat changed.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
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I thought this piece was very thoughtful. I had a similar reaction when I crashed a Tea Party event last spring.
This article is very interesting.. and it is definitely true that more and more Americans are sympathizing or even joining the Tea Party movement, and is even more true that the population is far more conservative than it was two years ago.. however i believe the Tea Party still runs the risk of creating a schism amongst moderate and more extreme conservatives in this country. This is very dangerous for the republican party, because in order to take advantage of this current conservative swing, it must stay united..
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